ORIGINAL: mithrandir
The day will come when you will need a license and a full background check to fly model planes....
Maybe not in 2 years or 5 years... but the day will come....
Maybe... depends on what you call a "license"
ORIGINAL: mithrandir
it is too easy with store bought stuff to build a flying device capable of causing harm...
Gotta' differ with you there. As I said before, its
much easier to do
much more harm with
much less sophisticated methods of delivery. Stuff that fits into the AMA rules on model airplanes doesn't have the legs, payload capacity, or accuracy to do anything except knock somebody in the head and you could never do THAT intentionally - it only happens when we don't want it to.
There are no legitimate security concerns with AMA-category model airplanes - NONE. Anyone who believes and advocates otherwise is grandstanding for some other reason. If that kind of rhetoric is responsible for curtailing an activity like model aviation, then to a certain extent, the terrorists have already won. The only way that we'll get more regulations is if idiots like Schumer suceed in convincing people that by regulating something like model airplanes would make them safer in their daily lives - even though it would have
no impact what so ever. Of course, the reason that people like him do something like that is beacuse they lack the intellegence and the stones to do something about the real threats. All you have to do is examine the true current state of boarder security in this country or the incident at VA Tech this past year to clearly see that...
Bob